Space is full of incredible and mind-blowing Mysteries here are
10 of the most insane discoveries ever made
when we think of space it can often invoke thoughts of a space completely devoid of life
just an empty and desolate place but astronomers have found that there can be unexpected things
waiting to surprise us in unlikely places take Saturn's largest moon Titan its surface
is covered with massive Canyons that are cut up to half a mile deep into the moon's
crust imagine it like a massive version of the Grand Canyon these geographic features
have been known by astronomers for a long time but for the first time astronomers were
able to detect veins of this Canyon filled with liquid hydrocarbons finding liquid on
another planetary body is always exciting for astronomers as it can unlock Mysteries
and hint at what has happened in the past could erosion caused by this liquid be responsible for
carving these massive Canyons that spiderweb across Titan's surface or is the source fluid
long gone and these hydrocarbons are the results of something more extraterrestrial
have you ever been flying in a plane and had to go through a particularly rough patch of turbulence
it can be a terrifying experience that can throw you off air travel when it's bad enough now you
might think this issue would easily be avoided when traveling through the vacuum of space but
just because there is no air in space to cause turbulence there are other sources of interference
that can affect those traveling through the cosmos NASA scientists have now detected events that are
sending electromagnetic energy out through space causing magnetic turbulence that can have effects
on all types of Technologies and even the bodies of astronauts this type of turbulence is still not
entirely understood and the effects it causes may be more severe than scientists currently believe
while surveying the sky and looking for evidence of dark energy a graduate student found an object
that with the help of his advisor turned out to be a fantastic find they had just stumbled upon
the largest Comet ever found comets are big hunks of Frozen gases and rock that spend their time in
orbit around our sun releasing some material into a long tail as they heat up this massive
Rock measures more than 10 times wider than the average Comet reaching nearly 130 kilometers and
is one thousand times more massive than the typical Comet scientists have found flying
through our solar system to add to the amazement of this discovery scientists have now figured out
that the last time this Comet visited us our ancient hominid ancestors walked the surface
of the Earth around 3 million years ago meaning the famous Australopithecus found in Ethiopia
Lucy may have seen this Comet blazing across the sky while looking to now named after its
discoverers The bernardellini Bernstein Comet will make its approach towards the sun in just under
a decade which will give astronomers their best chance at studying this the homo other space Rock
space is often depicted as a cold and harsh place to be but until the Royal Astronomical
Society started to look through the remnants of radiation from The Big Bang scientists didn't
realize how cold it could get while focusing their instruments on one small corner of the universe
they found that it was much colder and far more empty than the rest of the universe referred to
as the wmap cold spot this minute region of the universe is 140 degrees micro Kelvin colder than
the rest of the cosmic microwave background radiation also called CMB radiation found
throughout space which is a significant difference one of the most popular theories explaining what
is going on here contends that there is a massive void sitting in between us and the
primordial CMB which can influence the readings scientists to take leading to the appearance of
the cold spot other theories can get a bit more imaginative in dealing with parallel universes
imprinting their Shadow on our universe through some weird workings of quantum entanglement
our sun the center of our solar system and the source of the heat that keeps our planet
warm enough to sustain life in the last few years scientists have seen the sun become
much quieter and has been thought to be going through a still more dormant period with very
little activity across its surface but now that nap seems to be over as our sun is beginning to
wake up and is experienced powerful eruptions across its Corona not only have sunspots and
solar flares been coming more often but they have also been a bit larger than in the past
few years these events are spewing colossal amounts of energetical charge particles out
into the solar system and towards our planet if these particles and energizers strike the Earth
they could cause massive disruptions for our satellites and Communications luckily for us
our planet is surrounded by a powerful magnetic field generated through its hot iron core this
magnetic field protects us from the brunt of these solar emissions but scientists still need
to be prepared just in case there is an event powerful enough to overcome our magnetic Shield
a new study looking into the formation of planets has found evidence for their theory that planets
begin to form as golf ball-sized clumps of matter within clouds of dust and debris these clumps
then continue to build forming tiny planets that scientists refer to as planetesimals researchers
found their most convincing evidence when studying two ancient meteorites that had formed during the
pre-planetary time of our solar system and have remained unaltered after crashing to
the Earth long ago after cutting into these meteorites scientists found golf ball-sized
clumps of matter dispersed throughout its material these might be some of the first
planetesimals to have formed in our solar system typically these clumps of matter will continue
to grow larger and larger feeding off of the matter and dust clouds that orbit around them
eventually after growing to a certain size a new planet is formed that will live out its
life orbiting its Home Star if astronomers can get their hands on More Physical evidence for
these golf ball-sized Planet building clumps they hope to use them to understand more about
what is present when planets form and how that can eventually lead to the emergence of life
astronomers have already found thousands of planets within the Milky Way but a new study
based on a state-of-the-art simulation has just revealed that there may be a mind-blowing number
of Earth-like planets in our galaxy Based on data gathered from the Kepler space telescope on its
hunt for exoplanets this new study is predicting as many as 6 billion earth-like planets in the
Milky Way that means that one out of every five sun-like star in our galaxy likely has at least
one Earth-like planet if there are that many planets in the Milky Way galaxy that match
our own could there be intelligent life on some of them it seems exceedingly unlikely that only
one out of 6 billion planets were able to Harbor life and nurture it as it evolves over the years
deep in the Milky Way Around 1300 light years away from Earth astronomers made a fascinating
and possible life-altering Discovery in the iris nebula while studying this nebula they
were looking for a particular type of molecule called polycyclic aromic hydrocarbons that make
up nearly 10 of all carbon in the universe this type of carbon is believed to be essential to
the origin of life as it can be released when burning organic material before the team made
their readings they theorized that the intense radiation coming from the Central Star should
cause the molecules within the nebula to degrade in this nebula however radiation from its Central
Star seems to strike these special hydrocarbons which cause them to merge with others into larger
and more complex molecules the team of astronomers studying this nebula recently published a paper in
the journal astronomy and astrophysics which dove into their findings showing that as predicted the
smaller molecules were destroyed by the harsh radiation present but in this discovery they
saw the radiation cause medium-sized molecules to combine into larger molecules could this be
the process that created the material that kick-started the emergence of life on Earth
we think of planets as round balls of matter floating out in space partly because this has
been true for all of the planets we have been able to spot but some scientists have begun to
see a new shape of Planet pop-up in their models of the universe in very specific gravitational
situations a planet may form into a donut shape called a toroid in the very early stages of its
formation this newly theorized planetary shape is called a cenestia within the group of scientists
studying cenestius some researchers believe that the Earth may have even taken this form
in the very beginning which could also answer the question as to the origins of the Moon the Earth
and the moon are chemically very similar with only some minute differences lending evidence
to the theory there are several ways in which a cynestia can form including when the collision
between two planetary bodies results in a massive rapid spinning molten rock but
this state is rather short-lived perhaps only lasting for a few hundred years which is just a
blink of an eye in the time scale of planets there may be no way to prove that this is
truly how our planet and moon were formed but there is a momentum building behind this idea
we are all aware of the James Webb Space Telescope and its newly released pictures
that show off its incredible array of features but there is still much work to be done studying the
newly received data coming from this telescope to uncover all of the Wonders they contain one
of these insane discoveries was the Imaging of a new Galaxy glass z13 which sits at an insane
distance of 33.205 light years away from us this galaxy is so far away that Webb's image shows it
as it was only 300 million years after the big bang making it the earliest Galaxy to ever be
found what changes might the Galaxy have gone through in the 14.4 billion years since this
light began its journey to us and while the Galaxy is extremely small about a hundred
times smaller than our own Milky Way there is an incredibly fast rate of star formation with
total Stellar weight of around 1 billion Suns leading scientists to theorize that
the environment of the early universe may be more different than we imagine it luckily for us this
is only the first attempt to use Webb's power to look deep into the past of our universe and
this galaxy only represents the beginning of what will be found thanks for watching
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